Dated 2014 but probably some good points still. Just think, in 2014, there was no reason for a Muslim media outlet like Al Jazeera to not point out how dangerous Mexico and the border are. Now, they are practically making a pitch as to why a wall and possibly very secured border would be of aid.
Excerpted:
Mexican drug cartels are worse than ISIL
Cartels versus ISIL
A recent United Nations report estimated nearly 9,000 civilians have been killed and 17,386 wounded in Iraq in 2014, more than half since ISIL fighters seized large parts on northern Iraq in June. It is likely that the group is responsible another several thousand deaths in Syria. To be sure, these numbers are staggering. But in 2013 drug cartels murdered more than 16,000 people in Mexico alone, and another 60,000 from 2006 to 2012 — a rate of more than one killing every half hour for the last seven years. What is worse, these are estimates from the Mexican government, which is known to deflate the actual death toll by about 50 percent.
Statistics alone do not convey the depravity and threat of the cartels. They carry out hundreds of beheadings every year. In addition to decapitations, the cartels are known to dismember and otherwise mutilate the corpses of their victims — displaying piles of bodies prominently in towns to terrorize the public into compliance. They routinely target women and children to further intimidate communities. Like ISIL, the cartels use social media to post graphic images of their atrocious crimes.
The narcos also recruit child soldiers, molding boys as young as 11 into assassins or sending them on suicide missions during armed confrontations with Mexico’s army. They kidnap tens of thousands of children every year to use as drug mules or prostitutes or to simply kill and harvest their organs for sale on the black market. Those who dare to call for reforms often end up dead. In September, with the apparent assistance of local police, cartels kidnapped and massacred 43 students at a teaching college near the Mexican town of Iguala in response to student protests. A search in the area for the students has uncovered a number of mass graves containing mutilated bodies burned almost beyond recognition, but none of the remains have been confirmed to be of the students.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/isil-vs-mexican-drugcartelsunitedstatesislamophobia.html
I don't think they are as dangerous as ISIL or ISIS, not as evil, Cartels can not be called Islamo-Nazis; but a good case can be made as to how bad they are on all of these fronts; they import heroin which by itself, kills many Americans and I'm sure many in other countries too. Some heroin surely is imported by others but the point still stands.
Mojo, Mother Jones just came out with an article that the USA already has a "border law", I didn't take time to read it though.
